[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER OOO EPISODE 14 - “PRIDE, SURGERY, AND SECRETS”

The whole thing ends up being about her dad/boss trying to get her to feel the fear of losing a patient, in order to make her care more about saving them. This is a vaguely good thing – I like empathy! But, man, I do not think it’s good for a surgeon to be scared that she’s going to fail and kill her patient! (The hospital specifically has rules against family members operating on each other, which tells me that an emotional distance between doctor and patient is sort of considered a good thing?) We never got a sense of Tamura being sloppy or overconfident before, either. The two-parter starts with us being told a) she’s incredibly good at being a surgeon, b) she’s very happy being a surgeon, and c) she’s gotten some acclaim for being a good surgeon. I feel like all of that is good enough for a surgeon? I don’t think she needs to be scared she’ll fail and kill someone? I feel like that sort of terror would actually being counterproductive in a surgeon?

I do feel that Tamura is the kind who prioritizes maintaining her reputation and record as a surgeon, rather than saving lives because it's the right thing to do, and it's the problem the director brought up about her. I felt she was being smug and throwing her weight and superiority around to others before in why she insists on doing it. It's never about her skill, it's the opposite about her being potentially sloppy. It can be likely that Tamura would for example, refuse to perform a surgeon if it's something she doesn't feel confident for, so she can maintain her acclaim, rather like Kitaoka's lawyer verdict in Ryuki before, but she's forced to face her fear of mistake/failure, as it's her dad that needs it in this case. But I do think the dad is at fault, him just forcing Tamura to follow his orders and dismissing her completely obviously won't help her problems (which I admit, it'd be problematic for a doctor to have no empathy), just contrived miscommunication stuff.